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The Victim is a novel by Saul Bellow published in 1947. As in much of Bellow's fiction, the protagonist is a Jewish man in early middle age. Leventhal lives in New York City.
The Victim is the second novel written by Canadian / American author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Saul Bellow. We meet Asa Levanthal as he's on his way to Staten Island to visit his sister-in-law whose son got sick and is in urgent need of seeing a doctor.
Oct 6, 2023 · The Victim, published in 1947 by Canadian–American writer Saul Bellow, is an ambiguous modernist novel set in New York City. The recent depression and World War II visibly influence...
The Victim by Saul Bellow is a novel that explores the themes of identity, guilt, and redemption. The story follows the life of Asa Leventhal, a successful businessman who is haunted by his past. Asa is a Jewish man living in New York City, and he is struggling to come to terms with his identity.
May 5, 2018 · The Victim Bellow’s next novel, The Victim, also depicts a passive protagonist who is unable to overcome his victimization. As Bellow admitted, the novel is partially modeled on Dostoevski’s The Eternal Husband (1870) and uses the technique of the doppelgänger as Dostoevski did in The Double (1846). Bellow’s novel presents the ...
Nov 30, 2010 · Asa Leventhal, a temporary bachelor with his wife away on a visit to her mother, attempts to find relief from a Gotham heat wave, only to be accosted in the park by a down-at-the-heels stranger...
It's sweltering summer in New York City, and Asa Leventhal is alone. His co-workers ignore or condescend to him, his wife is away with her mother, and his estranged brother has run off,...
The Victim. Saul Bellow. Penguin Books, 1988 - Fiction - 237 pages. In this unique noir masterpiece by the incomparable Saul Bellow, a young man is sucked into the mysterious, heat-filled...
Summary. Leventhal is a natural victim; a man uncertain of himself, never free from the nagging suspicion that the other guy may be right. So when he meets a down-at-heel stranger in the park one day and finds himself being accused of ruining the man's life, he half believes it.
Nov 30, 2010 · Saul Bellow's second novel 'The Victim' was published in 1947. He must have written it after news of the Holocaust reached North America. The protagonist, Asa Leventhal, is a mensch and feels guilty about the fate of his fellow Jews, although he can't speak it.
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